Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author, born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1964 and raised in Bunker Hill, Indiana. He hosted the BET talk show that became BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, then public radio and PBS programs under his own name. His books include The Covenant with Black America and its sequel, The Covenant in Action, along with How to Make Black America Better, a collection of conversations with African American thinkers and public figures about education, economics, and equality.
